The St Paul Hotel has been the backbone of charm and elegance in downtown St Paul since it opened...
Twin Cities Area
The Saint Paul Hotel
Elizabeth Quinlan’s Renaissance Revival Palace
Elizabeth C. Quinlan was the co-founder of the Young-Quinlan Department Store in downtown...
Wilder Public Baths
H. Alden Smith Mansion in Minneapolis
Landmark Center In St Paul
Charles and Grace Parker House in Minneapolis
Finding Farm Ruins At Anoka State Hospital
The Minneapolis Industrial Exposition
The Swinford Townhomes
The Woman’s Club of Minneapolis
The Murder Of Carol Thompson In Saint Paul
The Horatio and Charlotte Van Cleve House
Aberdeen Hotel: The Grandest Apartment Hotel in St...
Young-Quinlan’s Elizabeth Quinlan: The Queen of...
Frank E. Little Mansion in Minneapolis
The Brickyards of Coon Rapids
Como Park Pavilion and Street Car Station
Washburn Park Water Tower: Tangletown’s...
Finding the Extraordinary in University Grove
The William Hinkle House in Minneapolis
The Gates of Stonebridge
Japanese Garden at Normandale Community College
Judson Bishop House In Saint Paul
Eugene Merrill House on Washburn Fair Oaks Park
Fire! At The Colonnade Hotel
The Original Plan for the Anoka Asylum
Edwin H. Hewitt House in Minneapolis
District #28 School in Ramsey
Terrace Theatre in Robbinsdale
Ripley Memorial Maternity Hospital in Minneapolis
Giddings Stone Igloos In Anoka
Colonnade Hotel In Saint Paul
The Swinford Apartments
Harry F. Legg House in Minneapolis
The Eight Days in May Protests
John S. Bradstreet: The Apostle of Good Taste
Frank and Rosa Seifert House in St Paul
George Peavey Mansion In Minneapolis
Sibley Historic Site in Mendota
Fourth Street Faces From Germania Life Insurance...
Hamm’s Homes of Sky Blue Waters
Kline Sanitarium In Anoka
Crown Roller Mill in Minneapolis
Miller Vocational High School in Minneapolis
The Rise of the Selby Avenue Streetcar Line
The Turnblad Mansion at the American Swedish Institute
Merchants National Bank Building In St. Paul
Mary Fridley: An Inconvenient Wife
Pillsbury Library in Minneapolis
Who Killed Ruth Munson?
Minnesota Linseed Oil Company in Minneapolis
Lilac Way: Showcase of the Belt Line
Schmid Farmhouse Ruins
The Christian Mansion in Minneapolis
The Weatherball in Minneapolis
St. Agatha’s Conservatory of Music and Art
How Betty Crocker Became America’s First Lady of...
The End of the Line: Wildwood Amusement Park
Sumner McKnight Mansion in Minneapolis
Birthplace Of F. Scott Fitzgerald In Saint Paul
The Second Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
Wonderland Amusement Park’s Glass Castles
The Metropolitan Hotel in St. Paul
The Starvation Doctor: Quack Cure or Murder?
Charles Harrington Mansion in Minneapolis
The Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank in Minneapolis
Lustron Homes on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis
History Mystery – Spalding Hotel
Hamm Building in Saint Paul
Waldmann Brewery And Wurstery In Saint Paul
Walker Art Center’s Idea House
North Branch of the Minneapolis Public Library
Blaisdell Manor In Minneapolis
Women’s City Club In St Paul
Dirt on Their Skirts: The Minneapolis Millerettes
Merriam’s Overlook: Secret Ruins Give Clues to...
The Jackson Hotel In Anoka
The Germania Bank Building in St Paul
The Gangsters of the Lowry Hotel in St Paul
First Church of Christ Scientist in Minneapolis
James J. Hill’s North Oaks Farm
Greater Minnesota
Hollywood-Inspired Fairyland Cottages in Detroit Lakes
Although the local resort industry near Detroit Lakes stretches back to the 1870s, it wasn’t until...
Moving Old Hibbing
Imagine that you’re a recent immigrant to northern Minnesota just after the turn of the 20th...
Welcome To Cobden
Joseph R. Brown’s Little Castle on the Prairie
Daniel Piper House in Medford
Exploring The History Of Beaver Bay
West Riverside School Near Cambridge
Historic Wasioja
The Church of the Holy Cross
The Minnesota Home School for Girls in Sauk Centre
The Fergus Falls State Hospital
Forgotten Memories on Lake Mille Lacs
Petrell Hall Near Fairbanks
Interstate Bridge in Duluth
Roadside Grave Of Corporal Paul Steinbach
Mudbaden Sulphur Springs
Hanover Bridge
St Rose of Lima Catholic Church
Wandering Around The Toimi School
Lake City And Rochester Stage Road Near Lake City
Exploring Angel Hill in Taylors Falls
The Le Sueur Theater
Hasty: A Minnesota Ghost Town
Marguth Graves At The Birch Coulee Battlefield
Admiring The Old Sandstone School
What Might Have Been In Clifton On The French River
The End of the Line in Currie
Visiting Golden Gate
Rush City Creamery Cooperative Ruins
The Fire Relief Houses of Pine County
Berg Hotel in Sleepy Eye
Enter Marlon Brando
The Gales of November: Crescent City Shipwreck
Randall Cooperative Creamery
Swedish Mission Church of South Maple Ridge
Broken Down Dam Park In Fergus Falls
Old Schoolhouse Near Essig
FEMCO Farms: The Birth of Diversified Farming
Detroit Lakes Carnegie Library
The Mysterious Death of Clara Ober in Blue Earth
Green Lake Mounds
A Turn of the Century Trestle in Akeley
Remembering Quadna Resort
George’s Ballroom In New Ulm
Moderne New Ulm Library
The Geldner Sawmill in Cleveland
Remembering The Milford Mine Disaster
Meyer School In St Augusta
Spencer Brook: Nearly a Ghost Town
Bucks Mill & Dam On The Pelican River
Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Darling
Tenney: The Evolution of a Ghost Town
A Stop At The Mille Lacs Indian Trading Post
Fort Juleson Near Underwood
Welcome To Old Wadena
Old Brewery In Preston
Swenson’s General Store in Norseland
Oxford Mill Ruin
Duluth’s Orpheum Theater
Railroad Shops in Two Harbors
Welcome To Dotson
The Ruins of the Archibald Mill
Taylor House In Le Sueur
Munger Terrace In Duluth
Lincoln Park In Duluth
Historic Franconia
Lincoln Branch Library In Duluth
Temple Baptist Church In Duluth
George & Charlotte Crosby House In Duluth
The Ten Thousand Lakes of Minnesota Association
WPA-Era Fieldstone Halls
Jefferson Highway Through St. Cloud
Sugar Loaf Brewery In Winona
Two Harbors Carnegie Library
Masonic Lodge In Clearwater
Who the Heck Was Asle Sorbel?
Izatys Village on Lake Mille Lacs
Churchill Methodist Church Near Brookfield
Taconite Harbor: Lake Superior’s Ghost Town
Lonely Farm On The Interstate
Hay Lake School Near Scandia
Stone Ruins of Park Terrace in Duluth
Colonel Colvill of the First Minnesota
Donald And Carrie Balfour House In Rochester
Almond White and the Motley Castle
Rainy Lake Gold Rush
The Almelund Creamery
Duluth’s Incline Railway
Historic Ness Lutheran Church
Wanda Gag House In New Ulm
Huff-Lamberton House In Winona
Welcome to Hanska
Stewart Creek Stone-Arch Bridge in Duluth
Buchanan: A Town of Firsts
The Little Marais Inn
Lost Highway 61
Smith-Cosgrove House in Le Sueur
Waverly’s Moderne Village Hall
The Gales of November: Mataafa Shipwreck
Waraju Distillery Ruins In New Ulm
Little Falls Depot
Exploring Sandstone
Sons of Norway Heimbygda Lodge In Lanesboro
Thompson-Fasbender House in Hastings
Rialto Theater In Aitkin
District 48 School Near Delano
Hollywood Town Hall
Finding The Past In Swatara
The Gales of November: Lafayette Shipwreck
Ruins of Sawyer School
Architecture of the State – The Rochester State...
The Old School In Wolverton
Chisago County State Bank in Center City
Exploring Ottawa
The Pine Tree Lumber Company
Bally Blacksmith Shop In Grand Marais
Red Wing Iron Works
Historic Park Island Hotel Threatened With Demolition
Roscoe Butter and Cheese Factory
Watkins Rockledge Mansion in Homer
The Duluth Homestead Project
The Dudley Mansion in Duluth
Sunrise Memorial Chapel In Hermantown
Endion Depot In Duluth
Historic Warren Through Truss Bridge Near Madelia
The Adolph Biermann House in Rochester
The Milford Monument
Lundring Service Station in Canby
Duluth’s Main Carnegie Library
Roaming The Grounds Of Villa Maria In Frontenac
Demolished Homes of the Mayo Brothers
Komensky School Near Hutchinson
A Queen Anne Masterpiece in Canby
Craigie Flour Mill Near Ottertail
Zumbrota Covered Bridge
Florence Town Hall
Prehistoric Minnesota Woman
The Wreck of the Arthur Orr
State Theater In Hutchinson
Endion School In Duluth
District 6 School in New Sweden
Pan-Town-on-the-Mississippi: Pan Motor Company’s...
Snake River Fur Post Near Pine City
Hutchinson Carnegie Library
Jordan Brewery Complex
Bend in the River Regional Park
The Gales of November: George Herbert Shipwreck
Tivoli Gardens in New Ulm
The New Ulm Company Service Station
Dead Good Walks
Old Settlers Cemetery In Hovland
The Old Settlers Cemetery in Hovland, Minnesota, is the final resting place of generations of...
Saint Paul’s Oakland Cemetery
On the darkest night in St. Paul, the living and the dead would come together in Jackson Woods...
Walking The Rochester State Hospital Cemetery
Exploring Woodlawn Cemetery
Historic St. Peter Church and Cemetery in Mendota
A Stop At Frontenac Cemetery
Chester Township Cemetery
Old Zion Lutheran Cemetery Near Green Isle
Soldiers & Sailors Cemetery in Hastings
St. Wenceslaus Cemetery in New Prague
Golden Gate Cemetery
Maple Hill Cemetery
Garden Valley Smallpox Cemetery In Wisconsin
Chippewa City Cemetery
Toimi Settlers Children’s Cemetery
Spirit Hill Cemetery in Jordan
Exploring The Iberia Cemetery
Two Historic Churches and a Cemetery in Valley Grove
A Walk Around Medo Central Cemetery
Glader Cemetery in Lindström
Who the heck was...
Who the Heck Was Roy Wilkins?
Roy Wilkins was born on August 30, 1901, in St. Louis, MO. After his mother’s death in 1905...
Who the Heck Was Fred Young Of The Young-Quinlan Company?
Elizabeth Quinlan is a name synonymous with the Young-Quinlan Department Store, a Minneapolis...
Who the Heck Was Eloise Butler?
Who the Heck Was Minnesota’s Biggest Baby?
Who the Heck Was Judge C.R. Magney?
Who the Heck Was Johan Hvoslef?
Who the Heck Was John Beargrease?
Who the Heck Was Edith Robbins Daniel?
Who the Heck Was Laura Baker?
Who the Heck Was Bernard Pietenpol?
Who the Heck Was Sally Ordway Irvine?
Who the Heck Was Veda Ponikvar?
Who the Heck Was Pierre Bottineau?
Roadtrips
Punished Woman’s Lake
I l-o-v-e historical markers. They often share hyper-local historical tidbits that people who don’t...
The Carnegie Libraries Of Superior
Sometimes I stumble on something great as I drive from point A to point B, which is how I found one...

